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Index title space

TeX - LaTeX Asked by Dimble on August 16, 2021

Currently my index has in bold letters the word Index as it’s title. So far so good. The problem is that my index is 5 columns and the title is only 1 column wide yet pushes all 5 down. How can I get the other 4 columns to move up (moving up column 1 would be nice but is less important) so I don’t have a big empty space (good for at least 40 index entries) at the top? I think that having that much empty space at the index is a waste of space. On the next page, the margins aren’t a problem. It’s just that huge empty space on the first index page. I can edit idxlayout to produce a section or just bold text for the index title but not only is that a really ugly solution, it still won’t put the index title in column one.

I’m looking to get something along the lines of:

Index Entry Entry Entry Entry

Entry Entry Entry Entry Entry

Where now I have this:

Index [big empty space]

[More empty space]

Entry Entry Entry Entry Entry

I like that the index is in the table of contents as a chapter and if possible I would like to keep it that way, but I can work around that I think. I use the idxlayout and makeidx packages for making the index as in:

documentclass[10pt, twoside, a4paper, twocolumn, openany, makeidx]{book}
usepackage[totoc, initsep=0pt, columns=5, columnsep=10pt, hangindent=3pt, subindent=8pt, subsubindent=10pt]{idxlayout}
usepackage{makeidx}
makeatother
makeindex
begin{document}
index{Word} index{WordTwo}

begin{footnotesize}
printindex
end{footnotesize}
end{document}

Edit: sample code

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